Category: Photojournalism
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Not For The Faint Of Heart — Vantage — Medium
Not For The Faint Of Heart Pete Muller on the freedoms, insecurities and strategic hustle of freelance photojournalism via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/not-for-the-faint-of-heart-428222eb27f7 Pete Muller on the freedoms, insecurities and strategic hustle of freelance photojournalism
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On the Instagram Presidential Campaign Trail – The New York Times
On the Instagram Presidential Campaign Trail Presidential candidates are using Instagram to shape their image and communicate with voters with varying success. A look at their feeds reveals some of their strategies — or lack thereof. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/on-the-instagram-presidential-campaign-trail/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Traditional photojournalism once dominated campaign coverage. Candidates strove to appear “presidential” in staged or stately…
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From streets of fear in Mogadishu to “paradise in Paris” – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/from-streets-of-fear-in-mogadishu-to-paradise-in-paris I was born and grew up in Mogadishu, and always wanted to be a photographer but never had the opportunity to study because of the situation in the country. I took my very first pictures when I was very young and got some training from friends that worked for local newspapers.…
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The Inevitable Death Of Professional Photojournalism
The Inevitable Death Of Professional Photojournalism It is not just the economics of the media that is putting traditional news photographers out of business. It is our troubled relationship with images themselves. Link: http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/the-inevitable-death-of-professional-photojournalism/c3s19562/ It is not just the economics of the media that is putting traditional news photographers out of business. It is our…
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Europe’s Best-Selling Newspaper Leaves Out Photos
Europe’s Best-Selling Newspaper Leaves Out Photos Europe’s largest newspaper, the Bild of Germany, has published an unusual print edition that left out all photographs from its pages. The bold move is via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/09/08/europes-best-selling-newspaper-leaves-out-photos/ The paper is saying that “the world must see the truth,” and hoping that by leaving out photos, people will realize…
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The limits of photojournalism: What those pictures of the Syrian boy didn’t tell us | Poynter.
The limits of photojournalism: What those pictures of the Syrian boy didn’t tell us When Mary Panzer saw the photos that have at least momentarily focused world attention on a long-term tragedy, she wondered about what the images didn’t make clear. She wondered about the partial story they told.
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The Future of Photojournalism by Kelli Grant – The Eye of Photography
The Future of Photojournalism by Kelli Grant We’ve seen how technology changed many aspects of our business, some for better and some, tragically, for the worse. We are now in a generation in which great photography, no matter the circumstance in which it’s been captured, leads to clicks and “hearts” and “thumbs up” on social…
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A starting point for refugees’ dreams… and nightmares – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/bodrum-a-starting-point-for-refugees-dreams-and-nightmares Some will make it to Greece to have a chance of forging a new life in the European Union. But, for others, the shiny resort will turn into a trap they cannot leave. And several won’t make it out alive.
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The Boy on the Beach – The New York Times
The Boy on the Beach The haunting photographs of Aylan Kurdi. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/magazine/the-boy-on-the-beach.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 For me, it was the shoes. Aylan appeared in my Twitter feed early yesterday afternoon, and I spent the rest of the day wrecked by his image. More than once I found myself staring out the window, thinking about the boy on…
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The Future of Photojournalism by Eliane Laffont – The Eye of Photography
The Future of Photojournalism by Eliane Laffont No matter how much photojournalism’s descent to hell is trumpeted, a great number of die-hards are by no means ready to dig its grave.
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A journey to the unknown on the Balkan migrant route – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/refugees-migrants-a-long-journey-to-uncertainty After covering the refugees’ ordeal on the Greek islands, AFP has sent a team of three journalists on the Balkan migrant route to follow the continuation of their journey to an all too uncertain future.
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2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography
2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends
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The Future of Photojournalism by Matt Shonfeld – The Eye of Photography
The Future of Photojournalism by Matt Shonfeld If all agents and photographers unanimously worked to a set of ‘professional rules’ and got used to saying NO, then the buyers would have to accept that the value of photography is every bit as important as it was back in those ‘good old days’.
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The Future of Photojournalism by Clément Saccomani – The Eye of Photography
The Future of Photojournalism by Clément Saccomani Sadly, I’m unable to predict the future, but I’d simply say that the technical and technological tools available today allow for almost infinite creation and multiple ways of sharing and accessing content
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The Future of Photojournalism by Jim Colton – The Eye of Photography
The Future of Photojournalism by Jim Colton Photojournalism is at a crisis point. A once trusted and venerable calling, journalists are now held at their lowest esteem in history. Why? I can answer that in one word…TRUST!
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Visa pour l’Image 2015 Screenings’ Program – The Eye of Photography
Visa pour l’Image 2015 Screenings’ Program The Visa pour l’Image evening shows will cover the main events of the past year, from September 2014 to August 2015. Every evening, from Monday to Saturday, the program will begin with a chronological review of these news stories, two months at a time. This is followed by reports…
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The Face of Hate revisited; unseen photos from the trial of William Robert Tyack | You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story
The Face of Hate revisited; unseen photos from the trial of William Robert Tyack When I started this blog in December, one of my initial posts was “The Face of Hate,” which showed a couple of pictures from the first murder trial I ever photographed, the sensational … via You can’t have my job, but…
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A boy, a soldier – and a near catastrophe – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/a-boy-a-soldier-and-a-near-catastrophe The story is known territory, one that’s been covered thousands of times. But this time it is different and disconcerting, even for someone who has been on it for so many years.
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Surviving one of photojournalism’s darkest moments – CNN.com
Surviving one of photojournalism’s darkest moments – CNN Michael Christopher Brown will never forget the first time he experienced armed conflict. He was documenting the Libyan conflict in 2011 when tragedy struck. via CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/23/world/cnnphotos-libyan-sugar-civil-war/ Photographer Michael Christopher Brown traveled by car into Libya with a digital camera in his hand and adventure in his…
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On the TIME Trump – American Eagle Shoot … Beyond the Ha, Ha, Ha — BagNews
On the TIME Trump – American Eagle Shoot … Beyond the Ha, Ha, Ha – Reading The Pictures If you get too (or completely) distracted by Trump, either through offendedness or amusement from the farce, you’re going to miss the deeper take-away here. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/08/time-trump-american-eagle/ Of course, of course, the photo shoot,…